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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  halls) for the weekly Physics department colloquium. The speaker is a guy ... mid-sentence when the lights flickered and went off. The hundred+ physicists in the room went "oooooooh!" My laptop screen glowed at me and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  tasks to keep up with the constant flooding of orders being placed. When ... , or go to the Museum of Science. It was interesting, being a part of a ... for work, and made dinner with my roommates almost daily. I burnt the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  night, I can be found standing by the bathrooms with my face pressed ... experimental results to help people and change the world. Also, let’s be honest ... being able to branch off into other fields, and apply the problem

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  weird being out of the norm. It's strange that I still feel that way, like ... a little abnormal. It was Halloween. I was surprised to see the lack of costumes worn during the day around MIT's campus. I personally was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  For those of you wondering, I ended up working only until the first 2 AM last night, and spent the extra hour catching up on some much ... thereby increase the efficiency of daily lives--like, for example, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  quick lunch, then come back here to soak up the internet. And be lazy ... 've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in ... free plane tickets, but I am so tired of being alert and awake. I am also

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  Pi day is almost here, when all the hard work from both applicants and the admissions office comes to fruition. Breathing is hard right ... hitting the gym? Besides, after this humongous pie I'd say it's time for a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  Every year there is a contest sponsored by East Campus called the Bad ... 's a hall) of East Campus called the Disco Dance Floor. Matt blogged ... (I am not that lame) because this is about the start-up company that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  experiences is one of the reasons I chose this MIT, especially because I didn ... , circuit-build, and code—culminating in a solar-powered night light. The project was very cute and a good means to pick up skills. The experience was

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  -to-god heroes, not to mention being some of the most simultaneously hardcore and ... (IAP) at MIT -- between the fall and spring semesters, students get a ... research. still others take the opportunity to travel through MIT MISTI. some

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  Hello world! I have returned from the -- well, to be honest, I never really left this place. I just lurk and cruft and linger in the tunnels, hidden away from view even more than the average student. (I graduated

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  Monday morning in the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity House. I woke up and ... having breakfast. As usual, I missed the Boston Daytime shuttle to campus ... stepped out onto the front steps, I felt compelled to pull out my phone and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Only You Have The Power Only YOU have the power to decide your own worth. Don't ever, ever, ever give…

  

  I'm still reeling a bit from the last thread, I must admit. Let me say it simply guys... only YOU have the power to decide your own worth ... the power to decide your own worth. Part of resiliency is playing the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  to the discussions around me. Everyone else seemed to be teaching ... more because of the feeling that I should be teaching technical classes ... -A grades are not the only ways to be successful (props to you if you are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  make for good song lyrics) Agawam is best known as being the ... found half price tickets to Six Flags which were a little cheaper than the ... actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  leeway to be as Unproductive as I want to be, I watch Netflix on the way ... been happening for the last two weeks, and I don’t know why. I bitterly get up, say good morning to my roommate, and head for the bathrooms

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  during the semester can be hard. Early into the semester, I made a ... I’m in my Uncle’s home in Virginia, typing the word ‘word’. And now ... soreness that has persisted over the last two hours. My room is a mess of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  things to be unhappy about over the years. Sometimes sadness is ... following the guilty rabbit hole of but-I’m-so-privileged-I-don’t-deserve-to-be ... because the positive things I want to write seem to take too much effort or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  . The house was without electricity and running water for quite a while ... weekend for the Alumni Leadership Conference, but the storm seemed to have ... in a house with no utilities, sweltering in the humidity, standing in

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  test can sometimes be a very good thing at the end of term. Second, I ... ), but I can't go home yet because I have 7.31 at 3:00 in the Whitehead ... postal worker. To those of you, I bring item #6 from the yellow To-Do Post

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005